[KennyBlanken]

Maps on Android for me became painfully slow. Every time I went to use it, I'd stare at a half-drawn screen for ages. I had a few year old flagship Android phone and that sort of experience was just silly. Google has heaped more and more into Maps, trying to make it do everything, and it has become a resource hogging monstrosity. When I open Maps, I want to quickly search for something and then likely navigate to it. Not wait for even the screen to get drawn, then wait for autocomplete, then wait for the map to draw, etc.

There are also some really bizarre choices in how the UI works. I don't remember exactly, but I believe when you search, you get a wildly zoomed out regional view, and then when you click on a specific result...you're still stuck at the very zoomed out view. So in order to see if you clicked on the right result, you have to pull the map waaaaaay in.

I just found myself baffled at how bad the usability was. Did the people running Maps actually watch people using their product?